so
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, ; NO YE3IBER 11, 1906.
FAULT LIES WITH
THE OREGON HEN
No Greedy Trust Is Secretly
Boosting the Price
of Eggs.
BIDDIES ARE ON STRIKE
Following Their1 Time-Honored Cus
tom They Lay When Prices Are
Low and Quit Work When
Frost Comes.
ORECOX TCO STATISTICS.
Dozens.
Annual egg production of
Oregon 2.7oO.OOO
Annual egg consumption of
stats 3.000.(K0
Quantity consumed In Port
land 2.000.000
Imported from Eastern .
States 3S4.0OO
Shipped out of state 135.000
Average retail price of eggs 25 cents
Number of tens In Oregon. 1S2.000
The housewife who has to pay 40 or 45
cnts a dozen for eggs and 15 to 20 cents
a pound for chickens these days may
think the poultry industry Is in the hands
of a trust, or that the famous car short
age .'has caused a famine in the local
market. As a matter of fact and her
old account hooks will prove it these ar
ticles cost her Just as much a year ago
as they do now. and in every November,
for many years back, the prices have been
practically the same.
So It is with other months of the year.
The price of eggs is regulated according
to the calendar, 'not by the. wholesale or
retail dealer, but by the hen. It has been
the custom of barnyard fowls so long that
"the memory of man runneth not to the
contrary.'- to lay eggs in abundance only
when the price is low. All the expedients
that have been tried to inaugurate an
economic reform in this matter have been
unavailing and the egg-producer refuses
to be guided by the market price of the
product. It is tough on the farmer who
owns the hen and equally tough on the
consumer., who has to pay for the hen's
stubbornness in this particular, but there
seems 'to be no help for it.
It Might Be Much Worse.
To make up for the scarcity of Oregon
eggs at .'this season, of the year, the
dealers are forced to bring in large quan
tities of egss from the East, three or four
carloads of such eggs coming to Portland
' every week. Many, people are disposed to
complain of this procedure, but if it were
not for the-Eastern, eggs on this market
fresh Oregon eggs would cost $1 or more'
a dozen.-instead of. 45 cents. The people
must have eggs, and when - the Oregon
hens will not lay. there is no other place
to get them fr.om than Iowa. Kansas. Ne
braska or South Dakota.
These states are great surplus egg pro
ducers, and this is . one of the markets
they- depend upon. When Oregon is as
thickly, settled as they are there will also
be a surplus here, and Oregon eggs, as
well as Oregon apples, will become fa
mous in other, states.
Even now, with a comparatively sparse
population in ' the rural districts. Oregon
cuts no small figure as a shipper of eggs
in certain seasons of the year. In the
early Spring, when the state produces
more eggs than can be consumed at
home, large quantities are sent to Ta
cpma. Seattle and British Columbia.
Oregon Eggs in Alaska.
'And before the ice goes out of the
Alaska- rivers, many thousands of cases
of Oregon eggs are sledged into the big
mining camps in the Far North. Some of
these shipments are made by Portland
firms, and others through the agency of
Seattle- houses The eg? season is
earlier in the Willamette Valley than it
is in "Washington, and tlje Puget Sound
cities consequently must buy their first
supplies in this state.
San .Franci-sco -is also -in- the market at
certain times of the year for Oregon
eggs, and some sections of Idaho likewise
draw upon, this section. Though eggs
rarely go out of Oregon in carload lots,
and not much notice is therefore taken
of the shipments, it is estimated that the
total quantity shipped from Oregon in a
year is half as large as the quantity
brought in from the East From a money
standpoint, the people here are. therefore,
not great losers by the exchange.
. When Oregon is in a position to cease
buying Eastern eggs, but instead can sup
ply other localities, the gain will, of
course, be great.
Get Busy in December.
The laying season begins about the
first of December, and from that time
on the price of eggs gradually eases up.
Eastern eggs then disappear. The holi
day flurry is counted upon to prevent
any slump, but after the new year is
well under way, the people who make
a business of buying or selling eggs look
for the price to drop steadily. When
the bottom is reached, which is some
where around 15 or 16 cents in the whole
sale market, the dold storage men get
busy. Vast quantities of Oregon eggs
find their way to the cold rooms to be
taken out again when the prevailing mar
ket price shows a chance to make a
profit.
These cold storage eggs supply the de.
ficiency In the barnyard returns until
the stock is exhausted, and then the
Eastern states are again drawn upon
' to feed the population of Portland until
the rOegon hens get ready to resume op
erations. And so it. goes all the year. Oregon
eggs are cheap when the hens are willing
to lay. and high when they are perverse.
Eastern eggs are relatively low, but
there is a prejudice against them that it
seems Impossible to overcome. The aver
age consumer will balk at an Eastern
egg when offered it in the market,
though it may be just as good as' the
average Oregon article Only label it an
. Oregon egg and he will not only pay the
price, but praise its quality, though it
may have been laid .on the plains of
Nebraska.
"But Not Knocking Anybody."
This is not saying that Portland deal
ers palm off such substitutes for the
Oregon product. None of them, of course,
sell Eastern eggs!
The poultry industry is growing fast in
Oregon, and is probably keeping pace
with the growth of population. Except
at Thanksgiving and Christmas, it is rare
that Eastern chickens or turkeys are
i found in this market, and such would
not be the case then but for the fact
that prices are made abnormally high by
the California and Puget Sound demand
for Oregon fowls. At other times of the
year Oregon is a shipper of poultry on a
large, scale. It is no uncommon thing for
the entire stock of poultry on Front
street . to be bought up by Seattle firms
and shipped to the Sound city over night.
when that market is above a parity with
this.-
As for the big poultry districts of South
ern Oregon, they depend almost entirely
upon San Francisco for an outlet.
Merely Supply and Demand.
The price of poultry ana eggs is regu
lated, like everything else, by the time
honored law of supply and demand. Peo
ple don't vant to eat eggs when straw
berries are in market, and if they insist
on having them in the Winter when the
old hen is tired out with her season's
labors and the young hen has not yet
learned how to lay. they must pay the
price. It is the same with chickens: if
the cold weather did not sharpen every
body's appetite for them at the same
time, the price would not go up.
WILL MEET. IN PORTLAND.
Convention November SO of Coast
Branch of Historical Society.
The third annual meeting of the Pa
cific Coast branch of the American His
torical Association will be held in Port
land on Friday, Noi'ember 30, and Sat
urday, December 1. There are 149 mem
bers of this association on this Coast, of
whom there are 117 in California, 20 in
Oregon, four in Washington, four in Mon
tana, two in Idaho and two in Arizona.
The American Historical Association
was organized January 4. 1SS9. and its
principal office is in Washington. The
membership at the present time is about
2500, representing: the leading historical
scholars and students in every state in
the Union.
This meeting will, be held under the
auspices of the Oregon Historical ' So
ciety. An important programme is in
preparation, which will be announced
foon. C. J. Schnabel. Miss Henrietta E.
Failing and George H. Himes compose the
committee of arrangements.
GIVES "SUNDAY AT HOME"
Y. W. C. A. Plans Interesting Pro
gramme for This Afternoon.
At the T. M. C. A. "Sunday at
Home" this afternoon from 4 to 6
o'clock. Clifford Concert Company and
Orchestra will render the following
programme, which all women and girls
are invited to hear:
(a) March, "Our Director,- (Bige
low) ; (b) overture, . "Lustspiel"
(Keler ' Bela); reading, selected.
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The -stained glass windows recently placed in the' First
Congregational Church by Frederick Kribs as a memorial
to his wife. Wilhelmine Kribs, are unusually beautiful and
artistic. The coloring is particularly, rich and effective and
the designs are artistic in the extreme.
As the window was a memorial to a woman and a mother,
it was decided to have women's figures predominate in the
designs. The large circular top. which on the outside of
the church wall is surmounted by an arch, holds a hand
some reproduction of the famous painting, "Christ and the
Miss Amita Pearcy; piano solo. "Hun
garian Rhapsody" (Liszt), Miss Lucia
Coffall; cornet solo, selected, Fred Eng
lish; vocal solo, "The Holy City," Mas
ter Harry Parsons; orchestra, "Hearts
and Flowers"; reading, selected. Miss
Pearcy; orchestra, selected.
The week of November 11-13 is week
of prayer for the Toung Women's
Christian Association all over the
world. In the local asociation a series
of meetings for 15 minutes at the last
hours is planned as fololws: Monday,
November -12. "The Place of Prayer,"
Dr. J. W. Brougher; Tuesday. Novem
ber 13, "The Privilege of Prayer," Rev.
George Van Water; Wednesday, No
vember 14. "The Price of Prayer." Rev.
E. S. Muckley; Thursday, November 15.
"The Plane of Prayer," Dr. C. T. Wil
son; Friday, November 16, "The Prob
lem of Prayer," Dr. B. E. S. Ely; Sun
day, November 1". 'The Power of
Prayer." Rev. A. W. Wilson.
The address will be given by Miss
Constance MacCorkle, on . the subject
"What Does Prayer Mean to You?" As
the programme is to be unusually loug
everyone "is urged to come promptly
st 4 o'clock.
Discuss Jute Mill Project.
At the meeting of the Lents Grange
yesterday afternoon there was a discus
sion of the proposition to manufacture
grain sacks at the state penitentiary. A.
F. Miller, master of the Grange, said
when first proposed the farmers readily
indorsed the proposition all over the
state, but now there is a question whether
it is feasible. The. recent investigation
made of the operation of the Jute manu
facture at the prison in Walla Walla, he
said, had raised a doubt whether it
would be practicable to undertake the
work in Oregon. He said that all the
subordinate Granges in Multnomah Coun
ty are considering the matter, and at
Pomona Grange, which meets at Gresham
three weeks from next Wednesday, the
whole question would be threshed out.
Mrs. Lord, who 'had worked hard to in
troduce the cultivation of flax in the
state, safd Mr. Miller, will speak regard
ing the jute mill project.
School Installs Laboratory.
The Gresham High School is having
fitted up a comodius room in the
basement of the schoelhouse which
will be used as the laboratory for the
study of natural sciences, physics and
chemistry. Pupils will be able to do
the same work in these lines as they
j do in the Portland High School.
.
I BEAUTIFUL WINDOW IS PLACED IN FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AS -MEMORIAL
TO WILHELMINE KRIBS
THE CPPER PART OF THE WINDOW REPRODUCENG THE FAJIOCS FAINTING. "CHRIST AT THE WELL."
In; a Permanent Position
, Must We Admit That Money Shall Always Rule as It Does in
fBT THOMAS SLADDEN.)
IN answer to the quotation from the
New Tork Times: "In a permanent
position of inferiority, in the status of
underlings and failures In the struggle
for life and whose object is to cripple
and hamper the successful and those who
are on the road to success by forcing
them to divide."
In the first place, what is a position of
Inferiority? And the answer which this
writer suggests Is contained in the words,
"forcing them to divide." From this
point of view, the amount of wealth and
that alone, which an individual can ac
cumulate, constitutes the position of su
periority and defines the relation between
success and failure. For this writer surely
cannot expect them to divide brains,
else he might be forced to divide with a
hod-carrier, which while the division
might be highly beneficial to the news
paper world in particular ana to society
in general, would be rather rough on the
hod-carrier.
Now the object' of man or men, the
individual unit or the comprehensive
whole of society, is to get the maximum
of result from the minimum of time. And
in this the present society (capitalist) has
been successful. The method of the pro
duction of wealth has been revolutionized
by capitalist society in a few short years.
Slowly they started with the reforma
tion, placing grace in the place of pen
ance and sacrifice. Slowly, but gather
ing momentum with each succeeding
year, they moved, wealth and misery,
culture ana Ignorance, heaven and hell,
from the mountain fastnesses to snob
hill. With their advent in the cities
appeared their vassals and sycophants. In
their legislatures they seated their law
yers to legislate for their class-interests,
ar.d to maintain for them in security their
position of superiority in the new society.
In their universities they installed their
professors and in place of the police
supervision of Kant and Fltche. they
instituted the supervision of the oily dol
lar. Their confessors they have turned
into mountebanks with a thousand dif
ferent creeds, and in place of a dual,
metaphysic creator, they worship a dual,
metaphysic creation.. The Intellect.
If I were to pick up a brick and at
THE FIVE lOWEB PANELS.
Woman at the Well.-- Beneath this are five narrow upright
panels, the three central ones being; the ones designed ac
cording to the ide3S of Mr. Kribs and Dr. E. L. House. They
represent Mary on her wav to the tomb Eastern morn, and
the effect is one of the morning- sunrise or brightness. In
' the first of this group Mary starts toward the tomb; in the
second she stands in an attitude- of amazement, seeing the
angel at the door of the tomb in the third. The angel holds
a stalk of white lilies in cross shape. On either side of'
this group of three are reproductions of "Christ Bidding
tempt to explain which part was the re
sult of labor, which part' was the result
of the shovel, which the result of drying
in the sun and which of the fire which
burned it, and try to portion them out as
they belonged. I would be adjudged in
sane and perhaps incarcerated in a pad
ded cell. Tet society does this ana it is
sane, it is moral, it is right, it is
sanctified. This, it says to the laborer, is
the part of wealth which your labor
has created, and points to the tenement
house rooms, to the 6lums. to the. slim
diet, and says, be industrious, do more
than you are paid to do (with apologies to
Hetty G.), eat common food, do not
gamble, drink water, and you will get
rich, maybe, ana be successful and no
longer an underling. This, it says to the
successful, is yours, the part due to
your great intellect, and points to the
mansions, private yachts. Monkey din
ners, and all the gilt and tinsel of im
becile splendor. Gamble on the stock-exchange,
drink champagne, do nothing use
ful, spend liberally so as to give work to
the poor, and this is moral, this is right,
this is sanctified. This is success and
failure. An . exposition , of this is not
envy.
Few there are who envy those whom
the shallow minded call successful, who
riot in senseless luxury. They awaken
more pity than envy, in their Intellectual
bankruptcy. But we cannot help hating
when looking over the terrible misery
and desolation where none should be, a
condition which must last as long as the
present ethics last, ethics which pro
nounce a parasite a success, a mech
anical genius a failure. In the face of
such glaring contradictions, something
must be wrong and the cry of sacrilege
will not stop rational investigation. The
present 6tate of society can only be
maintained as long as it is of benefit to
humanity. The productivity of labor has
become so great with the increasing Im
provements to machinery that it smothers
itself with its own creation, through its
inability to consume that which has been
produced. Economy instead of being a
solution, would make the condition worse.
Capitalist society has created a Frank
enstein, which it will require a new order
to control. Classes are in existence; to
deny is useless, to hide is criminal. That
this man or that man is not sincere
makes no material difference. The Ore-
a
Farewell to His Mother" and "The Ascension." The effect
produces increasing light tones from left to right, the as
cension window being particularly light.
The memorial window has been examined and admired
by many competent artists, who are unanimous in declaring
that there is nothing in the United States at present to
excel it in beauty and richness of coloring and design. It
adds materially to the interior of the handsome Congrega
tional Church.
of Inferiority
the Twentieth Century?
gonian correctly stated, "it is a tend
ency." Progress is a natural law. If capitalist
society can make no further advance it
must go down to where all societies
which preceded it have gone. Morality
is progressive, as are all the ideas of
goodness, right, freedom, liberty, truth,
Christianity, intellectuality and superior
ity. The sinner of today is the saint of
tomorrow, and the one who is burned at
the etake in the public square (executed
without the shedding of blood) on one
day, has a monument erected to his mem
ory in the same square, on the next- The
one who was the criminal is remembered
for the good he has done and the one
who was great would be forgotten, ex
cept for the memory of his crime. On
such frail foundations are greatness, rep
utations and superiority built. To which
does primacy belong: To mechanical
work or to mental speculation? Must
we say: this is the end of all advance?
"As it was in the beginning, is now and
ever will be?" Is that perfect adapta
tion of certain intellects to vile environ
ments, to the end that the possessors of
those intellects may acquire the products,
wrung from the very life blood of the
toiling, sweating multitudes, to be al
ways the measure of success, superiority
and greatness? Under certain environ
ments, a . hyena is most fit to survive.
Under others mutton can be successfully
raised. And where success is spelled with
dollar signs, professors, preachers, angels
and even editors are liable to contamina
tion. Portland, November 1.
IN OPIUM'S DEADLY CLUTCH
Joyce Brothers Sent to Kockplle to
Recover From Habit.
W. H. Joyce and J. W. Joyce, broth
ers, and the most pitiful human wrecks
that have been seen in the Municipal
Court in many days, were given 90
day sentences yesterday forenoon. The
two are victims of morphine, and more
abject slaves to the drug would be
hard to find. Either answers Kipling's,
description of the vampire; neither
KELLER, THE SAN FRANCISCO BOY
DRUMMER, PAYS PORTLAND VISIT
youth of 18 Who Draws $200 Monthly Salary and Expenses and Sells
More Goods Than Any Other Man With House.
ARKY KELLER, aged IS years.
traveling representative of a large
wholesale firm of San Francisco, is
a guest at ' the Oregon Hotel. He is the
youngest traveling man on the Pacific
Coast, and despite his youth has the rep
utation of being among the best. " He is
truly a boy drummer, and by the knights
of the grip is considered in the light of
a novelty, like the female drummer. But
lie sells the goods and holds his job be
cause of the many orders , he sends into
the house, and Wt 'because of a pull.
The other 'night a crowd of men -were
standing about the desk of the Hotel Ore
gon when Keller registered. No one at
first paid any particular attention to him.
"Have you any spare sample rooms?"
he inquired of Chief Clerk MacRae?"
Bystanders who heard the question pro
pounded were astonished. They looked at
Keller . hard and then rubbed their eyes
to be sure they were right. "Who is he?"
they began inquiring. One of those in the
crowd happened to know who Keller was
and said that the mere youth before the
hotel desk was no other than the "boy
drummer."
Small of stature and with a boyish face,
full of frankness, he looks all the world
like, a high school boy. He Is as smooth
as a newly waxed ballroom floor. He can
juggle the English in a manner that bor
ders on the wonderful. When he is talk
ing to anyone he looks them straight in
the face with his expressive eyes, which
spell innocence as plainly as though the
word were written on a blackboard, and
then he reels off the oiliest and smoothest
expressions imaginable. He is so open
and frank that no one doubts what he
says. His friends say he is so smooth
that he could sell a customer a piece of
gingham and make him think it was silk.
Keller does not act older than he is. He
never tries to make himself conspicuous
or to show off. He tends strictly to his
own business.
Keller sells-ladies' shirtwaists and silk
kimonos. When out on the road he al
ways takes along with him at least half
a dozen trunks. He does business with
several of the largest firms in Portland.
- j.y K
was much more "a rag, a bone and
a hank of hair."
To a chance prescription given them
for illness by a doctor three years
ago. they attribute their miserable
plight They claim they had never
been warned of the horrible danger
that lurked in the drug until it was too
late. Once it got iiold of tnem they
had sacrificed everything to appaase
the demands for the stuff and said
thev could not live without it, begging
pitifully for release.
. Judge Cameron thought that three
months of hard work in the op-jn air
ought to rid them of the habit. Re
gardless of their frightened pleas that
confinement without morphine would
kill them they were' sent to the County
Jail, and will begin their work on
the rock pile Monday morning.
School Attendance at Arleta.
Principal Miller, of the Arleta school,
on the Mount Scott railway, reports an
attendance of 469 pupils, whose homes
are widely scattered. Most of the pupils
attend in the eight-room building at
Arleta; some attend at Myrtle Point and
others at Nashville. There are eleven
teachers. The district will probably be
called on to erect a modern building of
about 16 rooms before long. The number
of children of school age tributary to
Arleta is reported at about "00. Three
years ago there were no schools at all
in that section.
Fountain for St. Johns.
The women of St. Johns will give an
entertainment Wednesday evening In
Beckner's hall to raise funds with which
to provide a fountain in that place. Other
entertainments will follow. It is not an
nounced where the fountain will be
placed, but it may be located at the in
tersection of Jersey and Philadelphia
streets.
Raising Building Fund.
Russellville Grange, which meets in the
schoolhouse on the Base Line road, is
raising a building fund and has $200 to
its credit. An entertainment a few even
ings ago. "Among the Breakers.-' netted
J65. When sufficient money has been
raised ground will be purchased as a site
for a halL
Milwaukee Country Club.
Eastern and California races. Take Sell
wood or Oregon City car, starting from
First and Alder treats.
He draws down a salary of J2A0 a month
and expenses. Keller, so the other trav
eling men who know him say. sells more
goods than any other drummer sent out
by his company. He has been traveling
for the firm three years, and during the
last two years has been at the head of the
list. He makes only the big towns.
It goes without saying that he dresses
well. He wears the high-water trousers,
with plenty of room, the long-cut coat
and the nobbiest of hats turned up in the
front and down at the back. His tie has
always to be just so. and his shoes al
ways look as though they were fresh
from the store. His clothes are not gaudy
in the least, but are of the latest style.
Five years ago young Keller left his
home in Kansas and went to San Fran
cisco. He secured work with the com
pany which he now represents, and his
first position was that of office boy at i3
a week. He had an absorbing ambition
to become a traveling man. and he had
not been there a week before he told his
boss he wanted to go on the road. He
was laughed at. but for two years he
kept insisting that he be given a chance.
The head of the house was impressed
with the enthusiasm and enterprise of the
youth, and more out of fun than anything
else put him on the road, expecting, of
course, that he would not last the week
out. To the surprise of all. he had not
been out for more than a couple of days
when, he sent back a big. fat order. The
boss was so astonished that he tele
graphed the customer, who was a regular
patron of the house, to see if the order
was genuine. He kept on sending orders
and they let him remain out as a business
principle.
"Honest, I was never in a hotel until I
was first sent out by the house.'- he re
marked, the other night at the Hotel Ore
gon. "I first hit Los Angeles and went
to one of the high-class hotels scared
nearly to death. I followed the crowd of
arrivals to the desk and hung over the
register and wondered what I should do.
I had never seen a register before and
didn't know you had to sign your name.
The clerk rather gruffly told me to sign
my name at such and such a place, think
ing I was a greenhorn, and he sized me
up right. I ironically asked him if Be
thought I was so recent as not to know
how to sign my name on a hotel register.
and after that he treated me with respect.
But I must admit if he hadn't explained
in detail how to sign I would still be
standing in front of that register trying
to look wise. I was lost when I went
into the grillroom. But I managed to
pull through ail right by giving the wait
er a tip and telling him to order for me.
"I never shall forget the first man I
struck for an order. I approached him
in his store, handed him my card and
then gave him a long yarn which I had
been preparing and culling over for
months. He listened -ery patiently, and
when I had finished floored me by the
simple question. 'Say. kid. Where's your
nurse?- Now that cut pretty deep, but I
hung onto that man and before I left the
store I had an order from him."
PARROTS FOR BACHELORS
Birds Trained to Give Cheery Greet
ings to Their Owners.
Bostcn Post.
The owner'of a bird store in Boston
makes a specialty of what he calls
"bachelors' pollies." The feature which
distinguishes .these birds from others ,
of their species is their ability to say
"Good morning, old chap. How goes
it?" "Good-bye. old man. Good luck
to you," and other sentences of the
kind.
"Talk about the old maid with her
parrot and her cat!" said this dealer.
"The well-to-do bachelor beats her at
the game every time. Cats real Per
sians are away ahead of the dog in
his estimation, though most people
won't believe it; but the bachelor s fa
vorite pet is the parrot in nine cases
out of ten.
"I suppose their being so little care
has a great deal to do with if. A parrot
will stay in his cage all day when his
master is away, greet him when he
comes home and when the door of his
cage is opened will hegv out. talk and
play tricks and be generally sociable
and entertaining for the evening.
"I first got the idea of training bach
elors' pollies from an old fellow who
dropped in here one afternoon to see
about replacing a pet parrot, which he
had lost a short time before. He ex
plained with tears in his eyes how
homelike it had been on entering his
apartment to hear a cheerful. 'Hello,
old man: How are you?' And on leav
ing each morning he said he would call.
Good-bye. Polly,' and the bird would
answer, 'Good-bye, Bob. old boy.
"T suppose you haven't a bird who
says anything of that sort?' he asked.
"I didn't just then, but it occurred to
me how many men came in for parrots
that talked and how few of them
seemed satisfied with the birds I dis
played. I realized suddenly what sort
of vocal accomplishment many of them
must want, and I wasn't slow to act
on the hint. Now I always keep sev
eral bachelors' pollies on hand. I
stand one of them by the door and I
find when one of these good-natured
old chaps comes in and the bird calls
out, 'Hello, old man! How goes it?"
he is seldom able to resist purchasing.''
Afton Water.
F.obert Bums.
Flow rntly. rtrpt Afron. asnnnz thy -rn
bra:
Flow gently. I'll ing th a. tnng In thy
r-raiM :
My Mary' asleep by thy TnurmuTinjp tr.m.
Flow Knt!y. sotm Afton. disturb not her
dream.
Thou fttockwim- whore echo resounds throuffli
the glen.
Te -wild -whistling blaj-kMrd in yon thorny
den.
Thou eren-cre-stM lapwinr. thy Bw-arninc
forbear;
I charge, you disturb not my lumbering: fair.
How lofty. wet Afton. thy neifchborlTii-r bill.
Fax marked with the courses of cleax-wlnd-Ing
rills!
There daily I wander a -noon rlees hitfh.
My flocks and my Mary'. weet cot In my eye.
How pleaFant thy banks and green valleys bel
low, Where wild In the woodlands the primroees .
Wow!
There oft a mild evening- wee.p, over tb lea.
The weet-cented birk shade my Mary an-4
me.
Thy crystal stream. Afton. how lowly It
glides.
And winds by the cot where my Min- reldes;
How wanton thy water her snowy feet lave.
As. gathering sweet flowers, she stems thy
clear wave!
t
Flow gently, sweet AftoM. among thy green
braMi:
Flow gently, sw-eet river, the theme of my
lays:
My Mary's aleep by thy murmuring strem.
Flow gently, sweet Afton. diturb not her
dream.
Woman's Discernment.
Lipplncott's.
"What, a murderous looking individual
the prisoner is!" whispered an old lady
in a crowded court-room. "I'd be afraid
to get near him."
"Sh!" warned her husband. "That ain't
the prisoner. He ain't been brought in
yet."
"It ain't! Who is it. then?"
"It's the judge."
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